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From deep within the bowels of SUN
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the SUN campus, where I was given a tour of a lab that makes James Bond's Q lab look like a childs room. We've forgotton what SUN actually do. Maybe they have too.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Windows 3.1 on
Posted: Aug. 7, 2008 07:50 AM
I want to believe
After a failed X-Files movie experience, I take comfort in the fact that Edgar Mitchell (6th man on the moon) is flying the flag proudly for aliens living amongst us all.Leave Comment
Posted: Jul. 28, 2008 08:42 AM
I want to believe
After a failed X-Files movie experience, I take comfort in the fact that Edgar Mitchell (6th man on the moon) is flying the flag proudly for aliens living amongst us all.Leave Comment
Posted: Jul. 28, 2008 08:42 AM
Time for VMWare to change its pricing model
With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the solution.Leave CommentRelat
Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 02:40 AM
Time for VMWare to change its pricing model
With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the solution.Leave CommentRelat
Posted: Jul. 23, 2008 02:40 AM
Presenting a good talk: avoid 'follow the bullets'
When was the last time you sat through an excellent talk where the speaker didn't read through their bullet points? it is a rare skill to achieve, with so few practicing it.Leave Comment
Posted: Jul. 21, 2008 09:12 AM
Presenting a good talk: avoid 'follow the bullets'
When was the last time you sat through an excellent talk where the speaker didn't read through their bullet points? it is a rare skill to achieve, with so few practicing it.Leave Comment
Posted: Jul. 21, 2008 09:12 AM
Amazon S3 suffers an 8hr outage; Trust no one
With Amazon S3 suffering an 8 hour outage, it is vitally important you take responsibility for your own cloud infastructure. Trust no one and rely on your own skills instead of blaming the provider.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Time for VMWare to cha
Posted: Jul. 21, 2008 04:38 AM
Amazon S3 suffers an 8hr outage; Trust no one
With Amazon S3 suffering an 8 hour outage, it is vitally important you take responsibility for your own cloud infastructure. Trust no one and rely on your own skills instead of blaming the provider.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Time for VMWare to cha
Posted: Jul. 21, 2008 04:38 AM
The OpenBlueDragon new look and logo launched
The new OpenBlueDragon look'n'feel and logo has gone live. The website and blog have been updated, and the new admin console will also take its feel from this.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Getting access to Amazon's SimpleDB through CFQUERYGoogle's G
Posted: Jul. 20, 2008 05:35 AM

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SocialMedian founder Jason Goldberg wrote a Twitter message moments ago letting people know that they are raising a new round of funding, up to $500k, and to contact him if you’re interested. Great way to get investors, right? Exactly not - the whole purpose of the Securities Act of 1933 is to prohibit public offerings like these unless accompanied by a registration statement and a valid prospectus approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the fun stuff is in Section 5). The Twi
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Good morning everybody! This is Dave coming to you from Salt Lake City, UT. I'm on my Summer 2008 road trip. Started yesterday at 4AM, and got me into SLC at about 4PM. Stops include Laramie, WY; Boulder CO and on to Denver on Sunday for the Democratic National Convention. Then four days of watching, listening, talking, and thinking and then back on the road to do it all again! I tried to set up a LAN in my car, to no avail. There isn't much Sprint EVDO on the road between Reno and Salt Lake.
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Worst. News analysis. Ever.
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Are Mashups the 'Agile' Part of Web 2.0?
I've been into computers since I was 4 years old. I went to an esteemed (so they tell me) computer science school, or at least that's what they tell me. I've worked for every kind of software shop: the Big 6 (now 4) consultancies, a couple of startups, and even 'the Big O' (yes, Oracle). So I thought I was familiar with most techniques, theories and approaches to software development. Well, it seems I missed one.About 8 weeks ago Deepak Alur, JackBe's ever-vigilant VP of Development, sent me
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Will make three presentations in the next two days
Tomorrow, I'll be speaking in New York City at Enterprise Flex symposium.  If you can't make it, on Wednesday, I'll be speaking in the evening at New Jersey Flex Users group (see http://www.njflex.com/ for details).Also, if you are a
Aug. 18, 2008 10:03 AM
FindBugs and PMD applied on J2EE 5
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Razor Profiler - An Automated JavaScript Profiling Tool
Razor Profiler (beta), an online Ajax profiling tool, is available for public review now at http://www.razorspeed.com. What Is it? Razor Profiler(beta) is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally. Some Razor Profiler screen shots are shown below: .imageLis
Aug. 16, 2008 10:47 PM
Bruce’s Loo
Yesterday was the final day of UX Week 2008, and our final speaker was Bruce Sterling. Though I’d heard of Bruce during the rise of cyberpunk, I was never all that aware of him until I attended South by Southwest Interactive in 1999. He was a legendary presence at the event, both providing the final thoughts to the attendees, and hosting a rocking party at his house. I had the fortune of Bruce speaking at another event of mine, IDEA 2006, where he did a remarkable job of summarizing the pr
Aug. 16, 2008 06:19 PM
ICOODB 2009, July 1-3, 2009, ETH Zurich
The second International Conference on Object Databases (ICOODB) will take place at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), on July 1-3, 2009.The ICOODB 2009 Conference Chair is Moira C. Norrie.I`d also like to inform you that a Steering Committee for the future series of ICOODB conferences has been created.The Steering Commitee is composed of:Mike Card, Mike Card, Syracuse Research Rick Cattell, consultant, William Cook, University of Texas at Austin, Stefan Edlich, FH BerlinMoira C. Norrie, ETH ZurichJam
Aug. 16, 2008 06:12 AM
TechWave Conclusions
Once again I thought this was one of the best TechWaves in years. Better than last years, which was good. Having my laptop crash on me when I’m scheduled to do four sessions wasn’t pleasant, and took the edge off of it for me. Otherwis
Aug. 14, 2008 11:47 PM
Twitter kills inbound SMS to UK.....
I received an email in my Inbox today to say that Twitter had killed off inbound SMS updates to the UK.The whole raison d’etre for my subscribing to and using Twitter was to get real-time updates. If I have to login to a Twitter app then what’s the point ? It’s no better, and actually worse than reading RSS. The guys at Twitter twitter on about it being costly, yada yada yada. Well they knew this when they started the service. The challenge for their exec team was to
Aug. 14, 2008 09:34 AM
More on Cloud Computing from Dion Hinchcliffe
Dion Hinchcliffe recently provide a comprehensive overview of the status of cloud computing for the enterprise in his post, Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam. It is a good article for spinning your knowledge up on what this trend means today. He starts with the comment, ???The days when organizations carefully cultivated vast data centers consisting of an endless sea of hardware and software are not over, at least not yet. However, the groundwork for their eventual transformation and dow
Aug. 14, 2008 12:02 AM
Harmony
Brendan Eich compared me to Yoda, and then to Gandalf. More recently, Mark Miller compared me to Henry Fonda because the meetings of the TC39 (the group that maintains the ECMAScript standard) played a lot like a prison theater production of 12 Angry Men.
Aug. 13, 2008 08:04 PM
Nature rules over robotics: Aibo toy-bone repurposed by puppy
Today our puppy discovered the pink toy-bone that originally came with the third generation of the Sony Aibo robotic dog: Sadly, the Aibo was canceled by Soiny in March 2006, but Fenway, our puppy, took possession and repurposed the pink Aibo toy-bone as a new chew-toy. It should be noted that the pink bone didn't last long. It's been proved once again: nature rules over robotics...
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160+ TechWave Thank you's
Guys, Just a quick note to the presenters of the 160+ sessions at TechWave...
Aug. 12, 2008 09:51 AM
Brainstorming, italian style
While I should be officially on vacation since ten days, some job troubles have pursued me for a few days. Nevertheless, working in an enjoyable environment definitely boosts your productivity. In these days I'm pushing hard on fixing bugs and...
Aug. 12, 2008 07:23 AM
From deep within the bowels of SUN
Last week I had the pleasure of visiting the SUN campus, where I was given a tour of a lab that makes James Bond's Q lab look like a childs room. We've forgotton what SUN actually do. Maybe they have too.Leave CommentRelated Entries:Windows 3.1 on a Nokia N810Speaking at CloudCamp LondonA simple Java API class for Amazon SimpleDBjava.lang.InternalError at sun.misc.URLClassPath$JarLoader.getResource()Google Web Toolkit Applications (Book Review)Google's GWT continues to amaze and delightOpen So
Aug. 7, 2008 07:50 AM
Nailguns and my 9-year old
My wife has allowed me to let my 9-year old daughter use a nailgun.
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